On 2013-06-23 19:47 +0200, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:28:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2013-06-23 19:03 +0200, Carl Fink wrote:
>>
>> > For what it's worth, I tried the Free nVidia driver
>>
>> I'm afraid you are a bit confused, there is no such thing. At least not
>> a free driver *from* nVidia.
>
> Perhaps I'm confused, but that's not what I meant. I meant a Free driver
> *for* nVidia adapters.
There is one in the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package, plus an
accompanying 3D driver in libgl1-mesa-dri.
>> > (xvideo-xorg-video-nvidia)
>> And this package does not exist, there is xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
>> however, containing the non-free nVidia driver.
>
> Typo. But I thought that Debian wouldn't package commercial stuff,
Even if by "commercial" you mean "proprietary", such stuff is packaged
although not officially part of Debian. See "Works that do not meet our
free software standards" in the Social Contract¹.
> so I was assuming that any official Debian package would contain only
> Free Software.
For packages in main, this is correct. But packages in non-free contain
non-free software, as the name of the section suggests
> Perhaps it downloaded the nVidia package silently in the background?
No.
Cheers,
Sven
¹ http://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html
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